Don’t look back!!

I’ve had to fight against sin my whole life. I have the scars to prove it. Sin is a relentless enemy that shows no mercy at all. If it can’t take you outright in a frontal assault it will disguise itself as something nice and lure you when you are not paying attention. When I was a kid after doing something I shouldn’t Dad would say, what’s done is done. Don’t look back only to remember so that you won’t do it again. Looking back is dangerous! We all like to look back and remember. I don’t know if your like me or not but sometimes reminiscing about things brings up old desires. Not good ones! Sins I once battled and overcome suddenly look good to me and if I linger there in that thinking I will begin to justify doing something just one more time. My friends, the battle against sin happens in your soul, in your heart, and in your mind! It’s there in the deepest regions of what makes you you. If you want to win against it, that’s where you fight!! James 1:14-15 says each person is tempted when dragged away by their own evil desires and enticed. This happens inside! What entices us? Our own desires. We all have a certain sin or sins that we lean towards. What tempts me may not be what tempts you, but something does. If we are aware of what tempts us, and we usually are, we should run from it like our lives depend on it! It does. Verse 15 says desire when it is conceived gives birth to sin and when sin is full grown gives birth to death! The way to win is study God’s word. Constantly! If it’s inside us, where the battle is, then the Holy Spirit can use his word to give us power over these desires and then we can cut off the desire before it becomes a sin. Desire in itself is not a sin but it’s definitely what leads us to it. For me, looking back is only good if I do it to remember the pain sin caused so I won’t do it again instead of the momentary fun that caused all the pain that comes later!! Father, help us fight the good fight so that on that day of your return, we will not be ashamed!
I pray today for you as you fight that daily fight!! Pray for me too!! Love y’all !!